Kilkenny Arts Festival
Kaleidoscope Caravan
Kilkenny Arts Festival
11th and 12th August 10pm
The Design Centre
Kaleidoscope, described by The Irish Times as “one of those life-saving, spirit-lifting, pioneering Cultural Ventures....the sort of thing our Cultural Ambassador should be shouting about" is going on the road this summer.
Kaleidoscope Caravan is bringing it's unique blend of classical music, from ancient to experimental in a bespoke salon setting, across the country, to some of Ireland's finest festivals and venues. The alchemy is sure to be unforgettable.
August sees us at Kilkenny Arts Festival, bringing two late nights of music to the Kilkenny Design Centre.
On the 10th, our evening is inspired by ideas of the outsider and the persecuted and misunderstood woman throughout history. We explore these ideas through the music of Brahms, Byrd, Tavener and the jazz vocalist Christine Tobin. Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, has responded to these themes with an original ballad "Dame Alice and I". He will be there on the night, reading his work and hearing it's setting to music by Christine Tobin.
On the 11th, we bring together performers appearing at the festival in an exciting cocktail of music from Biber and Schubert to Ben Schlepper-Connolly and Steve Reich, finishing with an exciting improvisation by Europe's finest masters of this art. We bring together Philip Jeck, Franceso Turrisi, Matthew Nolan and Bryan O'Connell in an exciting ending to an amazing summer for Kaleidoscope.
Book online: www.kilkennyarts.ie
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KALEIDOSCOPE @ KILKENNY ARTS FESTIVAL
AUGUST 10th 2011
Laoise O'Brien (baroque recorder), Sarah Grosner (viola da gamba)
A selection of medieval and baroque airs and dances
Michelle Sheridan (soprano), Maire-Louise Bowe (viola)
John Tavener - excerpts from “To a Child Dancing in the Wind” (text by Yeats)
Michelle Sheridan (soprano), Cliodhna Ryan, Anita Vedres (violin), Marie-Louise Bowe (viola), Kate Ellis (cello)
Johannes Brahms – Funf Ophelia Lieder (text by Shakespeare)
Paul Muldoon - Dame Alice And I (world premiere)
Christine Tobin (voice) - Dame Alice And I (world premiere)
words by Paul Muldoon, music by Christine Tobin
Fiona Kelly (flute)
Claude Debussy - Syrinx
Christine Tobin (voice), Phil Robson (guitar)
Original material
AUGUST 11th 2011
Maya Homburger (baroque violin), Barry Guy (double bass)
H.I.F Biber - Sonata IX “The carrying of the cross”
Interlude by Barry Guy
Sonata X “The crucifixion”
Praeludium - Aria with five Variations
Amarilli Trio - Maria Ryan (violin), Patricia Ramirez Reinoso (viola), Leonardo Sesenna (cello)
Franz Schubert - String Trio in B Flat Major
Niwel Tsumbu (guitar)
Steve Reich - Electric Counterpoint
Maya Homburger (baroque violin), Barry Guy (double bass)
Ben Schlepper-Connolly - Star
Philip Jeck (sound artist), Francesco Turrisi (fender rhodes), Matthew Nolan (guitar), Bryan O'Connell (percussion)
Original material
